Santai County
county in Sichuan, China
Santai County (Chinese: 三台县; pinyin: Sāntái Xiàn; Wade–Giles: San1-t῾ai2 Hsien4; Sichuanese romanization: San1-t῾ai2 Shien4; formerly known as Tungchwanfu, Sichuanese romanization: Tongchuanfu) is a county under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Mianyang, in the northeast of Sichuan Province of China. It has an area of 2,660.58 km2 (1,027.26 sq mi). According to the 2020 census, its population stands at 955,800. At the end of 2024 and the beginning of 2025, the resident population is 944,000, the urbanization rate is 34.14%, the urban population is 322,300, and the registered population is 1,334,500.
Administrative divisions
Santai County comprises 31 towns and 2 townships:
towns
Tongchuan 潼川镇
Tashan 塔山镇
Longshu 龙树镇
Shi'an 石安镇
Fushun 富顺镇
Sanyuan 三元镇
Qiulin 秋林镇
Xinde 新德镇
Xinsheng 新生镇
Luban 鲁班镇
Jingfu 景福镇
Zihe 紫河镇
Guanqiao 观桥镇
Qijiang 郪江镇
Zhongxin 中新镇
Gujing 古井镇
Xiping 西平镇
Badong 八洞镇
Le'an 乐安镇
Jianping 建平镇
Zhongtai 中太镇
Jinshi 金石镇
Xinlu 新鲁镇
Liuying 刘营镇
Lingxing 灵兴镇
Luxi 芦溪镇
Lixin 立新镇
Yongming 永明镇
Jianzhong 建中镇
Laoma 老马镇
Beiba 北坝镇
townships
Zhongxiao 忠孝乡
Duanshi 断石乡
Quaker mission
Tungchwan was a former base for the Friends' Foreign Mission Association (FFMA), serving as the largest mission branch of FFMA's Northern District. Quaker-affiliated hospital, meeting house, boys' school and girls' boarding school were built during this period. The British political economist and missionary Audrey Donnithorne was born at a Quaker hospital in Santai.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1343254. Authority coordinates are 31.092, 105.087. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2020, 2024 and 2025.
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